The Standard in Open Source Version Control

Version Control with

Subversion

Introduction

This is the home of Version Control with
Subversion,
a free book about the ubiquitous
Apache™
Subversion® version control system and written by some of
the developers of Subversion itself.

As you may have guessed from the layout of this page, we are quite
pleased that some versions of this book have
been published by O'Reilly Media. You can
certainly buy a traditionally published print
copy of the book if you'd like to, but you'll always find the most
recent versions here on this site, available in both HTML and PDF
formats.

Online Versions of the Book

Versions of this book use a numbering system designed to match
those used by the Subversion software itself—version 1.7 of
Version Control with Subversion
covers Subversion 1.7, for example. Here are the latest versions
of the book which are available online:

For Subversion 1.7

Nightly Build (for Subversion 1.8)

Please bear in mind that these versions are works-in-progress: if
you bookmark or link to specific sections, those links may be
invalidated by continuing development. If you need a link that can
be reasonably expected to remain stable for years to come, link to
one of the completed editions above.

You can also find older versions of the book (which we suspect are
no longer of much interest to most folks) here.

Feedback/Contributing

For feedback on the book or this website, contact
svnbook-dev@red-bean.com
[listinfo].
If you have spotted errors in the book (O'Reilly's hardcopy or
otherwise), please do the following things:

Check our issue/ticket tracker to see if someone else has already reported the
same problem. If so, there's nothing else to do, unless you wish
to contribute a patch which fixes the problem (see below).

Check the XML sources to see if the problem still exists. You can
grab these using Subversion itself, by checking out the trunk of our
Subversion repository at
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/svnbook/source/trunk/.
If the problem is present in the latest book sources, please
report the problem to the mailing list above or file
a new
ticket.

If the problem is in the published second edition book, check O'Reilly's
errata
page for the book, and report the error there if it hasn't
already been reported.

Reports of errors in the book are always welcome. Reports of
errors in the book which are accompanied by a suggested fix for the
problem are even better. For technical fixes (spelling, grammar,
markup, etc.), just include with your error-reporting email a patch
against the XML sources (and include the word [PATCH] in
the subject line). For more subjective concerns about the tone or
comprehensibility of a passage, it's best just raise that topic on
the mailing list.

Translations

This book has been (or is being) translated to other languages.
Use the navigation menu at the bottom of the page to select a
different language. From each translated page you can get
instructions on obtaining the translated book (or a
work-in-progress snapshot if it is not finished yet). Note that
the English version is the master from which all translations
derive, and if you have any comments about a translation you should
contact that translation's authors.

Are Those Turtles?

Why, yes, they are, indeed, turtles. That's the animal chosen by
the publisher for our book cover. And before you ask us, "Why?"
— we don't really know. It's cool, and our wives are pleased
that at least something "icky" wasn't chosen to represent
Subversion.